broad是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 宽的， 广阔的； 广大的； 宽宏的， 豁达的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same moment Lord Glenarvan gave the signal to start, and away went the mules along the coast, while the DUNCAN steamed out at full speed toward the broad ocean.
-- He had broad shoulders, and long hair bound together with leather thongs.
-- Thalcave embraced them each, and pressed them to his broad chest.
-- Instead of presenting their broad surface to the sunlight, only the side is turned.
-- CHAPTER X A MOMENTOUS INTERVIEWAN unfathomable gulf twenty-five miles long, and twenty miles broad was produced, but long before historic times, by the falling in of caverns among the trachytic lavas of the center of the island.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
-- The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff.
-- Now, it opened into a broad space in which stood two of those great stones, still to be seen there, which were set by certain forgotten peoples in the days of old.
-- 'Yes, there is a strip of grass about six feet broad on ei-ther side.'
-- We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical it might almost be called a malicious smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.
-- They put a man in-side a frame and a sort of broad knife falls by machinery -they call the thing a guillotine-it falls with fearful force and weight-the head springs off so quickly that you can't wink your eye in between.
-- It was a plainlooking knife, with a bone handle, a blade about eight inches long, and broad in proportion, it did not clasp.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Juno said to Minerva, 'Alas, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, shall the Ar-gives fly home to their own land over the broad sea, and leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Hel-en, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?
-- Pyraechmes led the Paeonian archers from distant Amydon, by the broad waters of the river Axius, the fairest that flow upon the earth.
-- Priam then caught sight of Ajax and asked, 'Who is that great and goodly warrior whose head and broad shoulders tower above the rest of the Argives?'
-- The spear of Agamemnon caught him on the broad of his back, just as he was turning in flight; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.
-- Their father was a rich man who lived in the strong city of Phere and was descended from the river Alpheus, whose broad stream flows through the land of the Pylians.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She undid her broad lace collar before the mirror and unfastened her pretty alligator belt which she had recently bought.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off.
-- Bob was the oldest and Tom next tall, beautiful men with very broad shoulders and brown faces, and long black hair and black eyes.
-- They dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore broad Panama hats.
-- About broad day in the morn-ing the king and the duke come up in the garret and woke me up, and I see by their look that there was trouble.
-- We had dinner out in that broad open passage be- twixt the house and the kitchen; and there was things enough on that table for seven families and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that's laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning.
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